pyq/2020/philosophy-optional-i/2

(a) "I never can catch myself at any time without perception, and never can observe anything but the perception." How does this statement by Hume problematize the philosophical notion of personal identity? How does Kant deal with this problem in his Critique of Pure Reason? (20)

(b) Critically discuss the following statement by Moore:

"If anyone tells us that to say 'Blue exists' is the same thing as to say that 'Both blue and consciousness exist', he makes a mistake and a self-contradictory mistake." (15)

(c) "The reason that I call my doctrine logical atomism is because the atoms that I wish to arrive at as the sort of last residue in analysis are logical atoms and not physical atoms."

Write a note on the nature of atomic facts according to Russell in the light of the above statement. (15)